A Beaumont woman now faces a fifth theft charge after an indictment was handed down Thursday by the Jefferson County grand jury.

Danielle Nicole Slaughter, 27, is accused of stealing clothes from Walmart in Port Arthur on Feb. 11. She is in the Jefferson County Jail on bonds totaling $15,200 as well as on a probation hold.

Theft is a state jail felony that carries a sentence of up to two years in the state jail and a $10,000 fine.

Slaughter had figured prominently in an earlier incident that occurred after she had bonded out of jail on Oct. 3 on three other theft charges. When another charge was filed shortly afterward, Jefferson County sheriff's deputies started looking for her.

Officers said they believed she was at a Nederland home, and spoke with the resident on Nov. 22. As they continued to patrol that day, they saw Slaughter leave the house.

When she was arrested, she claimed an attorney who lived there had been hiding her from police and had said, "he would do whatever it takes for her not to go back to jail." She also accused the attorney of withdrawing as her bondsman after she refused to have sex with him.

That time, she went to jail on four charges of theft, with a bond of $100,000.

A warrant related to the investigation of her whereabouts was issued for Rife Scott Kimler, 48, on a charge of hindering apprehension, and he bonded out of jail the last week in December.

An indictment is not evidence of guilt. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.